Oscar Wilde Quotes About Prejudice

• I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do. If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me.

  Oscar Wilde

  Attitude, Air, Expression

  Oscar Wilde (2017). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.54, Pan Macmillan

• Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Inspiring

  An Ideal Husband act 2 (1895)

• Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

  Oscar Wilde

  Motivational, Stupid, Mean

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.691, GENERAL PRESS

• I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Prejudice, Reviews

• Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beauty, Art, Prejudice

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.702, GENERAL PRESS

• Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.

  Oscar Wilde

  Doe, Prejudice, Spirit

• I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

  Oscar Wilde

  Principles, Prejudice, Ethics

  Oscar Wilde (1983). “Two Society Comedies”, A&C Black

• He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.

  Oscar Wilde

  Country, Bullying, Dog

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.25, Wordsworth Editions

• I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mind, Doe, Prejudice

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Happy Prince and Other Tales”, p.35, Xist Publishing

• The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Ideas, Intellectual

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Story of a Fashionable Young Man Who Sells His Soul for Eternal Youth and Beauty (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

• And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  America, People, Prejudice

  Oscar Wilde (2010). “Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews”, p.28, University of Illinois Press

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